Attenuated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Attenuated is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of attenuate.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of attenuate.
More Meanings
- Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
- (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)
Example Sentences
attenuated power
She had become spiritualized in mind, even as she had grown attenuated in person.
He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
To conclude otherwise requires accepting an attenuated fiction that commingling funds in an account, even if done decades earlier, means the account today still contains funds attributable to the sale of expropriated property.
Synonyms for attenuated
Depending on context, synonyms include attenuate, reduced, faded, weakened, decreased.
Antonyms for attenuated
Common opposites include unattenuated, abject, frightful, absolute, arrant, categorical.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include faded, weakened, reduced, decreased, diminished, lessened.
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